July 4 - God Bless America

Hello Blogger friends! Thanks fortaking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog today. It's the 4th of July and our Independence Day celebration today in the USA. 

Hope whatever you have planned is fun and a relaxing time to spend with friends and family. We are going out with friends this afternoon. Tonight will be a quiet evening at home. Usually some of our neighbors put on a fireworks display so we will get to see some. 

The City of Pittsburgh has one as well but it's a bit crazy going down there to watch. We did that one year and took the transit train back home but getting on took some time and the crowds with the same idea was amazing. So we don't go down anymore. 

My card for today is featuring the Statue of Liberty die in a diagonal joy fold design. Here is a link to another card I made in this design with a complete tutorial. All the dies on today's card are from CottageCutz.

I looked at photos online of the Statue of Liberty to get an idea of the color. Over the years it took on a green patina with copper underneath. So, I attempted to recreate that color by using distress inks in salvaged patina and hickory smoke.

For the background on this image panel, I used prized ribbon, salvaged patina and villainous potion distress inks for the ink blending. My buildings are cut from the City Skyline Slimline die and I added a few glittery stars to this panel.

On the diagonal panel I used designer paper and I cut my July 4 phrase from the Stitched Alphabet and Stitched Numbers die.  The red swirl is part of the USA Flag die that I had left over from another card.
This is a photo of the card closed. 

And here is the card inside. I used the Fireworks die from CottageCutz. 

That's it for me for this post. So until next time......God bless. 

I am also entering:

1. Crafting Happiness Challenge is anything goes. 

2.  Cupcake Inspirations has a red, white and blue challenge. 

3.  Lil Patch of Crafty Friends has an anything goes challenge. 

4.  Cardz For Galz has a more than one fold challenge. 

5.  Creative Creases challenge #60 is anything goes with a fun fold.